Tag: Lawsuit

So for a while now, there has been ongoing controversy at League of Legends maker Riot Games LA studio and beyond over a forced arbitration clause being enforced by the games company. Riot Games has been the subject of ongoing issues such as gender discrimination lawsuits and other claims of abuse and mistreatment of their

Loot boxes, long a source of frustration and addiction for some gamers, have become an increasingly problematic system for publishers and developers as well. Despite earning billions of dollars collectively for the games which include them, loot boxes are a font of anger and litigation as more public pressure mounts against the mechanics, which many

DeAndre Cortez Way, known by his rapper persona Soulja Boy, has landed in some hot water recently over his attempts to operate a “dropshipping” business to peddle various cheap electronics. The practice of dropshipping is the idea of selling products to customers, but instead of maintaining active inventory, the point is to offload all the

Rockstar Games and its parent company Take-Two have had a tumultuous history with modders over the past few months. With the absurdly successful GTA Online mode literally making billions of dollars for the company, they have an incentive to protect player confidence in the service, and it seems that incentive has manifested in a new

So it turns out that LoveROMs.com and LoveRETRO.com have lost the lawsuit against them, to no one surprise. The total paid damages to Nintendo currently stand at $12.33 million. The two sites were run by two people in Arizona, and hosted large amounts of pirated games, including many older Nintendo titles. The duo agreed to

YouTube personality Brandon Lucas (aka “Golden Modz”) and his frequent partner Colton Conter (“Excentric”) are the first targets of a new lawsuit from Epic Games targeting those distributing Fortnite cheats. According to the suit, the two conspired to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, breached contract and engaged in “tortious interference” by posting videos of

The Witcher developer CD Projekt has told original author Andrzej Sapkowski that the company will not pay additional fees to license his content. In a notice issued to CD Projekt he demanded 60 million Polish zlotys (more than 16 million US dollars) from CD Projekt, Sapkowski also demanded a share of profits from games and

DRM maker Denuvo has launched an offensive against cracking groups in response to repeated cracks made for games in which its DRM is included. The latest casualty comes from Bulgaria, where an infamous member of cracking group REVOLT is based. Voksi, as many in the scene know him, has been hit with a legal case

Two hugely popular ROMs websites have been taken offline by their owner, LoveROMs and LoveRETRO, are the target of a recent lawsuit by Nintendo (a pdf of which is hosted at TorrentFreak). There’s a ton of information included within the 27-page document, but here’s an explanation of why these sites in particular have been chosen,

Flight Sim Labs, makers of various add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator X, has landed in some hot water over malware allegedly included in one of their products. Flight Sim Labs makes various planes for popular flight sims, like the Concorde-X. Or other tools, like one that lets you control the lights on your aircraft. But

In 2016 an Australian court ruled against Valve to the tune of $2.16 million, finding that Valve insufficiently advertised and refunding Australian Steam customers for purchases on the platform, which ran afoul of the country’s consumer laws. “This case sets an important precedent that overseas-based companies that sell to Australians must abide by our law.

The makers of a Twitch “viewbot” that enabled users to fraudulently rack up large viewer counts and thereby get into its lucrative Partner program have been ordered to pay nearly $1.4 million to the company for trademark violation, unfair competition, cybersquatting, and breach of contract. Twitch filed the suit in 2016 against multiple alleged defendants.

Crytek, makers of CryEngine, have brought a potentially ruinous lawsuit against the makers of Star Citizen and Squadron 42, Cloud Imperium Games. The complaint names Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) and Roberts Space Industries (RSI) as the defendants. Both companies were co-founded by Chris Roberts, the creator of the Wing Commander franchise. Crytek alleges CIG and

Blizzard has triumphed in the German courts against Bossland GmbH, creators of the World of Warcraft bot Honorbuddy. As a result of the ruling. Bossland will now have to cease selling Honorbuddy in Germany and there will be a settlement which has not been revealed. Bossland GmbH will be moving their offices outside of Germany,

A few weeks ago, infamous shovelware developer Digital Homicide tried to sue anonymous Steam users over negative reviews, often referring to these users as a “hate and harassment group,”. Now, the developer is blaming everyone else for their business being “destroyed”. In a motion to dismiss filed last week, Digital Homicide said that their business

Digital Homicide, a developer known mostly for making low quality asset flips on Steam, has completely gone off the deep end. Digital Homicide first became infamous after coverage of one of their games, Slaughtering Grounds, was released by YouTuber and gaming personality Jim Sterling. The game was the quintessential asset flip, comprised almost entirely of

It’s no secret that video games can be addictive, but one Russian man feels he has become so hooked on Fallout 4 that he is suing the creators of the game, Bethesda, for compensation. In a statement to Russian news site RT, the man said his addiction to Fallout has cost him his health, his job,

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